Top 10: Legendary Bloodbaths

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When it comes to horror movies, gore and carnage go together like Freddy and Jason. Rarely loved by critics, but perennially popular with audiences, the horror genre -- at its best and bloodiest -- is unapologetic and shameless when the time calls for demented boogeymen, gruesome kills and buckets of blood.

Our list of the top 10 shameless bloodbaths offers a gruesome look at the goriest horror films of old -- the genre classics that still stand tall -- as well as some modern favorites that have proudly followed in their footsteps while breaking new ground.